Unit 2.2

Boycott

Townshend Acts

• Refusal to buy certain items

• Tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

• Taxes on every paper document.

• Tax on tea.

Boston Tea Party

• 5 colonists got killed

• Created to help colonists share information about resisting British law.

• Colonists dumped 45 tons of tea in the Boston Harbor

• secret society

Parliament

Sons of liberty

• similar to our search warrants

• created an engraved silver image of the incident in Boston that killed 5 colonists

• Massachusetts lawyer defends the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre incident.

• secret society of colonists that formed to protest British policies/acts & taxes.

Boston Massacre

• Boston harbor was closed until damages from the Boston Tea Party was paid for.

• Incident in which colonists gathered to confront some redcoats

• colonists disguised as Indians, boarded ships & dumped tea into the harbor

• legislative branch or law-making branch of the British government.

John Adams

Writs Of Assistance

• (similar to our search warrants) were used to enforce the Townshend Acts.

• It effectively gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling cheap tea in the colonies.

• created to help colonists share information about resisting British law.

• name the colonists gave to the Coercive Acts.

Declaratory Acts

• the final straw that caused the colonists to call for a meeting of all the colonies.

• Things got out of hand after colonists threw snowballs and other objects at the redcoats.

• secret society of colonists that formed to protest British policies/acts & taxes.

• states that Parliament had total authority over the colonies.

Propaganda

• dissemination of information—facts, arguments, rumours, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion.

• Massachusetts lawyer defends the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre incident.

• collection of acts Parliament passed to punish Boston & Massachusetts for Boston Tea Party